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A Legend is gone. May she rest in peace.
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Big wheel keeps on turning -
What an incredible life. A legend in the flesh. Seems like we're losing them daily at this point.Comment
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RIP Tina Turner (Simply the Best)Comment
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Loved Tina, damn the girl had some energy. Sorry she had to leave but wow the music in heaven is getting better with each passing.Comment
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I really enjoyed her music. I'm probably way in the minority, but my favorite of hers was We dont need another hero. So many more popular and great songs to choose from, I know. Also...what a great pair of legs that stood the test of time all these years!
Just two days ago, one of my coworkers shared this cover of it by Ghost....
and here is the orginal...great song.
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Damn, RIP legend.Comment
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My favorite song of hers:
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RIP to the ageless one. Right after she dumped the worthless and abusive Ike, and just as she first started to promote herself as a solo artist, I had the privilege of seeing her live for a song or two. Rod Stewart was touring in the early 80's, and was live at the Fabulous Forum in LA.
No one knew Rod was going to do this, but he said he had a special guest in the house and wanted her to come onstage and sing a tune with him. It was Tina, and the song they sang together was his "Hot Legs" song from 1978. The song was perfect, and she was wearing one of her patented short miniskirts that showed off her awesome legs.
The crowd went wild and gave her a standing ovation as they finished the song, and she exited the stage. There was never any doubt about her stage presence, but no one knew at the time what a huge solo career she would go on to have. Shortly thereafter, she came out with the extremely popular Private Dancer album, and that sealed her status of being completely independent of Ike. RIP, ole girl.Comment
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Some more related trivia for you is that Mark Knoffler from the Dire Straits wrote the single, Private Dancer. It was slated to go on one of their early albums, but Knoffler thought the lyrics were not suitable for a male singer so they shelved it.
A couple of years later, it got into Tina’s hands, and oddly, everyone from the Dire Straits except Knoffler plays on the single, and Jeff Beck takes Knoffler’s place on guitar.Comment
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Here is the main Beck part, the solo starts at 2:47 -
Knopfler wasn't a fan of the solo -
"The song Private Dancer, as many of you will know, was written by Mark Knopfler - and when I interviewed him last year he told me the song was ruined due to "them drafting in Jeff Beck to play the world's second ugliest guitar solo".
https://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainmen...o-in-the-world
lol. He didn't say what the first ugliest guitar solo was!
Tina said the Knopfler version was great and wished people had heard it. It was never released. There is a guy on youtube who does a rendition as if it were played by Knopfler and it is pretty good, the voice is off though-
I would image the Knopfler version being slower than this. More like the title track to the album it was intended to be on - Love Over Gold. Knopfler said so himself -
"All of a sudden there's no surprise that Knopfler would write a tune like Private Dancer (essentially gifted to Tina Turner; "there is a version I worked up, it's slower, moodier, more reflective. A quiet portrait, but I don't think people need to hear that now"
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Dude that man playing the Knoff was spot on and it was awesome. I don't love the Beck solo either, I give Turner props though, as that may be the shortest solo Beck has ever done and by a huge margin.
Here is the main Beck part, the solo starts at 2:47 -
Knopfler wasn't a fan of the solo -
"The song Private Dancer, as many of you will know, was written by Mark Knopfler - and when I interviewed him last year he told me the song was ruined due to "them drafting in Jeff Beck to play the world's second ugliest guitar solo".
https://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainmen...o-in-the-world
lol. He didn't say what the first ugliest guitar solo was!
Tina said the Knopfler version was great and wished people had heard it. It was never released. There is a guy on youtube who does a rendition as if it were played by Knopfler and it is pretty good, the voice is off though-
I would image the Knopfler version being slower than this. More like the title track to the album it was intended to be on - Love Over Gold. Knopfler said so himself -
"All of a sudden there's no surprise that Knopfler would write a tune like Private Dancer (essentially gifted to Tina Turner; "there is a version I worked up, it's slower, moodier, more reflective. A quiet portrait, but I don't think people need to hear that now"
http://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment...fler-Interview
Now I'm curious to what Knoff thinks the worst solo is.Comment
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She was sexy right up until the end. What a performer! Because I play the sax I always loved the movie Thunderdome because she had the blind sax player dude that played for her.Comment
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Dude, that is him. I forgot he was Asian, for some reason, I thought it was a black dude. For those that don't know saxophones require reeds on the mouthpiece to produce a vibration that turns into the sound the saxophone produces. We are extremely anal and always complaining we can't get good reeds. I will buy a box of 5 reeds for like 25 bucks and I'm lucky to get one reed that is good enough to play live on. The first thing I thought when seeing his dude in Thunderdome was how do you get a good reed in a dystopian universe?
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Damn, it sucks Tina Turner is gone, but I did get to see her live in Vegas one time.Comment
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RIP Tina Turner.
You had more power in your presence in than most people see in their whole lifetime. More than a generational talent, your power and essence reached across generations. One of the only ladies to ever out shine Cher on stage.
May you find a place where everyone sings and dances for you.Comment
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Aunty Entity!Comment
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She was quite a success story. From a poor family that farmed their small plot of land. Suffered through abuse from her husband. Broke off and left him dramatically. Rediscovered and convinced to cross over into a new style of mainstream music ("What's love got to do with it") where she blew up with even more success. She was able to add lots of elements of her old style into the new music. That is when you have big success, when you take something from one field/music genre and apply it to another. I'm sure we will see lots more movies and even theatrical plays/musicals about her life.Comment
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